Oligosoma carinacauda Bell & Patterson, 2024
Okuru skink
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing (Bell & Patterson, 2024)
Last (and only) record: 2000 (Bell & Patterson, 2024)
Distribution & Habitat
near Okuru, south of Haast, South Island, New Zealand
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Bell, T. and Patterson, G. B. (2024). The Okuru skink (Oligosoma carinacauda sp. nov) of South Westland, New Zealand - simply elusive or extinct?. Zootaxa, 5536(1), 123-138. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5536.1.4
Other references:
Hitchmough, R., Barr, B., Knox, C., Lettink, M., Monks, J. M., Patterson, G. B., Reardon, J. T., van Winkel, D., Rolfe, J. and Michel, P. (2021). Conservation status of New Zealand reptiles, 2021. New Zealand threat classification series 35. Wellington: New Zealand Department of Conversation.
van Winkel, D., Baling, M. and Hitchmough, R. (2018). Reptiles and Amphibians of New Zealand: A field guide. Auckland: Auckland University Press. 376 pp.